ABSTRACT
In the 1996 review of the Toyne Report the University was identified as one of the UK's 'trail-blazing' universities in terms of its environmental initiatives. Middlesex University's environmental mission statement states that the University seeks to incorporate an environmental ethos into its operations and to promote an environmentally responsible community through teaching and research. Middlesex University offers opportunities for environmental education within the business curriculum, but its core function is to teach students the skills necessary to operate as business school graduates. Students' attitudes to the environment—their affinity to ecocentric and sustainability statements that are enshrined in the concepts of sustainable development—remained strong over the three-year time-period and, in fact, on average strengthened slightly. Those students who had undertaken some form of environmental learning experience did appear to have increased their environmental knowledge, actions and attitudes, but this effect was not constant.
